The Symbols
Might Mean
Detachment: letting go, cutting the cord, loosening up, hands off, not caring, aloofness, cold shoulder, insensitivity, fragmentation, attention deficit, neglect, dissociation, abandonment, apathy, cold blooded
Rejection: refusal, negation, denial, self-denial, disapproval, dismissive, repression, avoidance, deflection, freed from responsibility, not my problem, distrust, uncaring, throw away
Limit: ending, deadline, quitting, sacrifice, taking a break, discontinue, oblivion, detour, breaking the cycle, escape, reset, cancelling
Rejection: refusal, negation, denial, self-denial, disapproval, dismissive, repression, avoidance, deflection, freed from responsibility, not my problem, distrust, uncaring, throw away
Limit: ending, deadline, quitting, sacrifice, taking a break, discontinue, oblivion, detour, breaking the cycle, escape, reset, cancelling
For Example
Movie Clips & Videos:
Skinny Jeans Boyfriends Dating Pattern – Your Sister's Sister,
Fire Me, Cocoon of Self-Banishment – Up In The Air
The Challenge of Being Close
The Tree of Life: Crafting an Existential Masterpiece,
The Theme of Eternal Recurrence in Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice,
Mythology of Sacrifice, Refusal of The Suitors - Joseph Campbell
TV Shows:
Russian Dolls (Netflix)
Fire Me, Cocoon of Self-Banishment – Up In The Air
The Challenge of Being Close
The Tree of Life: Crafting an Existential Masterpiece,
The Theme of Eternal Recurrence in Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice,
Mythology of Sacrifice, Refusal of The Suitors - Joseph Campbell
TV Shows:
Russian Dolls (Netflix)
Podcasts:
5th Vital Sign (Invisibilia), Life and Death of a Melody – Loops (Radiolab),
Quitting, Serial Ghosters, Burn It Down (This American Life),
Comfort, If Not A Cure (Modern Love)
5th Vital Sign (Invisibilia), Life and Death of a Melody – Loops (Radiolab),
Quitting, Serial Ghosters, Burn It Down (This American Life),
Comfort, If Not A Cure (Modern Love)
Writings:
Fables of the Salamander and the Seahorse,
Practicing the Subtle Art of Detachment, Attachment Theory,
When, Why, and How To Say No, Avoider Love Style,
Why Women Stay In Relationships With Unavailable Men,
The Psychology of Why People Take Breakups Harder Than Others,
The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs,
How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails
Fables of the Salamander and the Seahorse,
Practicing the Subtle Art of Detachment, Attachment Theory,
When, Why, and How To Say No, Avoider Love Style,
Why Women Stay In Relationships With Unavailable Men,
The Psychology of Why People Take Breakups Harder Than Others,
The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs,
How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails
"I nourish the good and extinguish the bad" – King Francis 1st
French Leave, Francis I of France, Detachment (Philosophy), Avoidance, Avoidance Response, Autotomy, Eternal Return, Learned Helplessness,
Mind-Body Problem, Enso, Emotional Abandonment & Detachment,
Declinism, Cancel Culture, Sacrifice, Throw Away Society, Denial,
Counterdependency, Abuse, Cycle of Abuse, Neglect, Negligence
"Most of us have long ago lost our bodies. It seems, in fact, that 'I' am almost sitting on my body as if I was a horseman riding on a horse. I am my head, but I own my body. The body is reduced from self to property, something which is mine, but not me. Man will not live with his body, for that is corruptible, and thus he lives only as his ego, a picture of himself to himself, and a picture that leaves out any true reference to death. Ultimately, the body is avoided because it is the abode of death."
– Ken Wilber, No Boundary
Literature:
The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop),
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat)
The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop),
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat)
"Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all."
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all."
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